Images

Brill Academic Publishers · Netherlands · Est. 1941

ISSN1871-7993eISSN1871-8000

SJR Q3✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.11

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.044

Total Worksi

3,327

Total Citationsi

433

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.04

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Art; History; Visual Arts and Performing Arts; Cultural Studies; Religious Studies.

General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1941

Annual Volume~ 13 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications3,327

Publisher OrgBrill

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Brill Academic Publishers

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1871-7993 / 1871-8000

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

HistoryQ3

Visual Arts and Performing ArtsQ3

Cultural StudiesQ4

Religious StudiesQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Art

Scopus Categories

HistoryCultural StudiesReligious StudiesVisual Arts and Performing Arts

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

French Urban and Social StudiesFrench Historical and Cultural StudiesPsychoanalysis and Psychopathology ResearchFrench Literature and Critical TheoryDiverse Cultural and Historical StudiesCinema and Media StudiesCultural Insights and Digital ImpactsHistorical and Literary AnalysesPolitical and Social IssuesLiterature and Culture Studies

Frequently asked questions about Images

Is Images a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Images: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Images?

Images is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.04.

Is Images indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Images is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Images?